A police officer who was allegedly guarding the Israeli Embassy in London has been charged with giving up his firearm and his CS spray while working for the diplomatic protection group, the Daily Mail has reported.

A letter of apology has been sent to Business Secretary Vince Cable by Richmond Synagogue over “inappropriate” comments made by a prominent guest rabbi at a synagogue gala dinner which Dr Cable addressed.

Two major American Jewish organisations are at odds over how the US should react to the Palestinian UN upgrade.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) which defines itself as “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”, has called for the closing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s offices in Washington following the UN vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority.

The best thing about Limmud is not the presenters, or the sessions they give, it’s the questions the participants ask afterwards, what they say later on in the bar or let slip over breakfast. Here are my favourites so far:

“The stained-glass ceiling has not yet been broken”, declared Baroness Julia Neuberger at a panel debate of women rabbis at Limmud on Sunday.

In what was supposed to be a celebration of 40 years of women rabbis, instead the four rabbis, speaking to an almost entirely female audience, agreed that, after 40 years, they were “still in the desert”.

A South African convicted of defrauding HM Revenue and Customs has been ordered to pay £249,999 or face 16 months in prison.

Lawrence Goldberg, 48, pleaded guilty last year to a tax scam worth £1.1 million and spent a year behind bars. The Crown Prosecution Service then proceeded to try to recover assets Goldberg claimed he did not have.

Noah Pozner, the youngest child killed at the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut last week, was the first to be buried at a ceremony on Monday.

At the funeral, conducted by Rabbi Shaul Praver of Temple Adath Israel — of which the Pozner family are members — Noah’s mother, Veronique, said her six-year-old son was “light and love, mischief and pranks”.

Parental Guidance, a new movie by Jewish director Adam Fickman will be released in the UK on December 26. Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play grandparents left to look after the grandkids. The film follows the havoc that ensues when old-school parenting and new-age kids collide.

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has been removed from a local committee of Human Rights Watch.

Richard Falk, who is a professor of law at Princeton University, has been removed from the Santa Barbara committee of the non-governmental organisation and no longer appears on the committee list on the website.